Chapter 1026

Ying Wu Xie trades the secret code with a timid voice, and Shi Nu kneels sobbing his respects to master. Told to stand, he kowtows three times before rising, still half bowed with eyes on Ying Wu Xie’s feet, his Gu Immortal aura strong at rank seven. Using Fixed Immortal Travel, Ying Wu Xie has come to this secret Shadow Sect base in Central Continent rather than to Hu Immortal blessed land to seize Dang Hun Mountain. His soul is a split soul of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable. ^{ch. 1026}

His earlier childlike manner came from the Pure Dream Reality Seeker Physique erasing his memories; the life and death battle steadied him, and receiving Spectral Soul’s will inside the Red Lotus true inheritance has partly recovered them. He cannot use any Gu worms, and Fang Yuan’s fake will sits in his mind; only Fixed Immortal Travel remains safe. Entering Hu Immortal blessed land unprepared means certain discovery by the land spirit. He comes here first to prepare. ^{ch. 1026}

Shi Nu leads him through twisting tunnels to an underground chamber of dense, rolling yellowish-brown soil, ringed by Gu formations. At its center a soul sphere sinks and rises: Bo Qing’s soul. Sword Immortal Bo Qing survived a failed tribulation only through the intervention of Yellow, a Shadow Sect split soul, yet his soul kept worsening across thousands of years into this sphere. ^{ch. 1026}

To watch this site, Shadow Sect subdued and nurtured rockmen, raising the rank seven Shi Nu as battle strength for the sovereign immortal fetus Gu plan. As they were about to summon him, a wild one eyed giant ape appeared. Shi Nu had to fight it and draw it away. Shadow Sect, busy elsewhere, never summoned him after that, and he survived by luck. Heaven’s will had obstructed Shadow Sect throughout, never letting it use its full strength. After Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s defeat, Shadow Sect dispersed and its subordinate Zombie Alliance was completely annihilated, though some arrangements, Shi Nu among them, survive across the five regions. ^{ch. 1026}

Half an hour later Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Hei Lou Lan step out of Ying Wu Xie’s immortal aperture into this crudely arranged room, part of a larger rockman maze. Ying Wu Xie confirms they are back in Central Continent, at Earth Abyss. This secret base, arranged by his master, has had its rockmen moved out. Tai Bai Yun Sheng mentions Star Form blessed land also sits in Earth Abyss, and Ying Wu Xie notes it as Fang Yuan’s second blessed land. ^{ch. 1026}

Hei Lou Lan, shaken, narrows her eyes at the man she knows as Purple Mountain True Monarch. She asks why he did not go straight to Hu Immortal blessed land. Ying Wu Xie explains his identity is exposed to Heavenly Court. Asked what he found, he confirms the ten great ancient sects know their role in destroying Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, and that Hu Immortal blessed land is already surrounded. ^{ch. 1026}

Tai Bai Yun Sheng, shocked, asks about Dang Hun Mountain, since Fang Yuan’s revival method has reduced the blessed land’s value, leaving Dang Hun Mountain, an inexhaustible income source, more important than ever. Ying Wu Xie sneers that the blessed land is lost, content to let the ten great ancient sects safeguard its resources until he reclaims them. He suddenly stops speaking, shocked. He brings out Fixed Immortal Travel’s destroyed body, saying Shadow Sect’s moves struck him and he forced the activation anyway. ^{ch. 1026}

Ying Wu Xie concludes Fang Yuan deliberately left this self-destruct method behind, meaning his other Gu worms will likely fail the same way. He must race to borrow Immortal Gu to suppress them. Ying Wu Xie warns them of huge trouble, then tells the two to rest while he handles it. He leaves. ^{ch. 1026}

At Tian Ti Mountain, the ten great ancient sects’ Gu Immortals break into Hu Immortal blessed land. They find it empty, Dang Hun Mountain itself gone. Hu Immortal land spirit appears before Feng Jiu Ge and tells him her master already took everything he needed, the blessed land given instead to Feng Jiu Ge’s daughter, Feng Jin Huang. Some speculate a tie between Fang Yuan and Feng Jin Huang since the Refinement Path Convention, a rumor already known, until Feng Jiu Ge’s gaze silences the whispers. ^{ch. 1026}